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The writer of America the Beautiful was just writing a popular song for his culture, the way Yossi Green writes popular songs for our culture. The difference is that 99% of the time Yossi Green does not write the lyrics; he takes them from Torah and sets them to music which is pleasant for our ears.
The song came from a very different America, and frankly it is cheesy and cheap and reminds me only of silly public school assemblies and silly kids dressed in red, white and blue just as Soviet kids dressed in red.
If you want to have some fun, google Afghanistan the Pitiful, which was written after 9-11. I think it was posted on a Google Group and may be difficult to find. It is as much a parody of America the Beautiful as an anti-Taliban satire.